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SAR Manager
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Hybrid · London, United Kingdom
Experience
3 years
Job description
Financial Crime SAR Manager in ClearBank's Financial Crime Intelligence & Investigations Team, acting as a subject matter expert for financial crime intelligence analysis across the client base and overseeing complex investigations and regulatory reporting.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Hybrid · London, United Kingdom
What you'll do
- Leading complex financial crime investigations and providing senior-level oversight, challenge and direction on material or high-risk cases
- Overseeing the allocation and prioritisation of investigative activity, ensuring resources are effectively deployed and key regulatory and operational deadlines are met
- Building and managing effective relationships with senior stakeholders across the business, providing clear advice, challenge and escalation on financial crime matters
- Providing oversight of financial crime risks associated with existing and emerging products and services, ensuring appropriate mitigation strategies are developed and implemented
- Driving the development of financial crime, sanctions and money laundering typology knowledge across the team and wider business
- Overseeing complex end-to-end enquiries and ensuring appropriate, timely and risk-based outcomes
- Directing and overseeing research and intelligence activity to support the identification, assessment and investigation of potentially suspicious activity
- Providing oversight and approval of relevant regulatory reports and disclosures, ensuring compliance with applicable AML legislation, regulation and reporting obligations
- Accountable for team outcomes and responsible for complex/high risk decision making
- Applying extensive technical and regulatory expertise to identify control weaknesses, assess risk exposure and influence appropriate remediation
- Acting as a senior subject matter expert on financial crime and maintaining awareness of emerging AML trends, typologies and industry developments to strengthen the Bank's detection and control capabilities
- Developing strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to influence decision-making, support strategic objectives and deliver effective financial crime risk management
- Conducting analysis of potential suspicious activity across a range of financial crime escalations, producing reports for both internal and external audiences, and providing support across the wider team where needed
What we're looking for
- Proven experience in financial crime intelligence across different payment platforms and services
- Excellent understanding of financial crime typologies, detection methods and intelligence analysis techniques
- Extensive experience leading and providing oversight of complex financial crime investigations
- Strong knowledge and practical application of financial crime control frameworks, regulatory requirements and industry standards
- Understanding of UK and EU AML/CTF legislation
- Meticulous organisational skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate and negotiate with key/senior stakeholders
- Understanding of money laundering typologies across a range of products and services
- Solutions driven, with the appetite for constant improvement
- In-depth knowledge of AML regulations and guidelines
- Strong ethical standards and integrity in handling sensitive information
- Strong knowledge of payment services, together with extensive technical and regulatory expertise across financial crime and sanctions in the UK and other jurisdictions, including relevant reporting obligations
- Proven ability to identify, assess, and mitigate financial crime risk across the business
- Comfortable working in an energetic environment and dealing with change whilst taking pride in owning and mitigating financial crime risk for the business
- Confidence to raise concerns, shape strategic thinking and make well-informed decisions
Nice to have
- Good knowledge of sectors such as money remittance, electronic money, and cryptocurrency firms
- International AML/CTF knowledge
- A recognised AML/Sanctions/Fraud qualification
- Previous experience of Delegated Nominated Officer responsibilities
Your team
Financial Crime Intelligence & Investigations Team
Team focused on financial crime intelligence analysis across ClearBank's client base, reporting to the Senior Manager.
Benefits
- Flexible working culture supporting work-life balance
- Work in the London office, at home, or hybrid
- 27 days of annual leave per year, plus bank holidays
- Holiday buy/sell - buy or sell up to five days of annual leave each year
- Work outside of the UK for up to 30 days in a rolling 12-month period
- Regular social events open to all
- Option to swap bank holidays to any other day of your choice
- 24/7 employee assistance programme including mental health support, life assurance and income protection
- Take a couple of days per year to do something that matters to you
- Private healthcare and discounted dental cover, with employee perks and discounts
- Enhanced family-friendly leave
- Personal development budgets, opportunities to take part in role-related training and unlimited LinkedIn Learning
How to get hired
- 1Application: a member of the talent acquisition team will review your application against the key requirements for the role and let you know within two weeks whether you're moving forward to the next stage
- 2Screening: 30-45 minutes speaking to one of our recruiters via phone or Teams video call; expect to hear back within seven days
- 3First Interview: one hour with a member of our hiring team focusing on skills, competencies and ways of working, via Teams
- 4Second Interview: competency-based interview with one or more members of our team
- 5Final Stage: final meeting with the Head of Department, around 45-60 minutes
- 6Offer
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About ClearBank
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Key facts
- Banking / financial infrastructure
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- Enhanced family leave policies
- Partnership with Code First Girls
- Partnership with the Inclusive Group to increase awareness of neurodiversity in the workplace
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What they value
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- Radical and responsible thinking
- Autonomy and transparency
- Solutions focus
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
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